Strange Things in the Woods: A Collection of Terrifying Tales by Steve Stockton

Author:Steve Stockton [Stockton, Steve]
Language: eng
Format: azw3
Tags: Nonfiction
ISBN: 9781734419818
Publisher: Beyond The Fray Publishing
Published: 2020-04-09T23:00:00+00:00

Chapter 47

THE DOG WHO WASN’T THERE

When I was a kid, we lived in the foothills of upstate New York. My brother, who is several years older than me, used to keep hunting dogs. He enjoyed forays into the wilderness and would occasionally hunt for raccoons or opossum. He had one particular hunting dog, a Walker coonhound named Moses, which he dearly loved. At around three years of age, Moses had become entangled in a barbed wire fence one day while my brother was at work, and the poor dog subsequently died from complications due to the injuries he suffered.

My brother took the death of his favorite coon dog pretty hard, understandably so. He had erected a nice, homemade headstone out behind my parents’ barn where he’d buried his dog. The dog was a very unique-looking black, white and tan coloration, and it wouldn’t have been easy to confuse him with another dog. But—a few weeks after Moses had been buried—he started showing up around our farm. Oddly enough, almost everyone in our immediate family had a paranormal encounter with the dog EXCEPT my brother.

There are many examples: One day, as my mom was hanging up the wash out by the same barn, she noticed the first sheet she’d hung was missing. A few minutes later, she saw a dog that looked exactly like Moses carrying it off into the woods and out of sight.

Another time, my dad was out working in our garden. He looked up just in time to see Moses in profile as he disappeared around the corner of our house. Intrigued, my dad dropped the hoe he was using to weed the garden and immediately took off in a trot around the same corner of the house—only to be met by absolutely no dog of any kind, let alone the phantom Moses.

I, myself, had several encounters with the ghost dog, including some in which visual contact didn’t happen—I would hear a dog sniffing and whining nearby our house or barn, but would then be unable to locate any such dog. I had several visual sightings too, and it always seemed to be (like everyone else) at a particular time when Moses was rounding a corner or was just going out of sight.

Another time, my brother’s wife and young son had just arrived from a shopping trip, and they spotted Moses on the edge of the woods beside the barn. My young nephew was so excited, he burst into the house exclaiming that Moses had returned. On further investigation, of course, no dog was found anywhere on our property.

We moved to the south when I was a teenager, and the ghost of the dog didn’t follow us those several hundred miles. However, I do often wonder if there’s not some people living on a small farm in upstate NY who often spot a ghostly hunting dog just turning the corner and then being nowhere to be found. My family was always somewhat skeptical when it came to the

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